Book Description

The Interpretation of Murder opens on a hot summer night in 1909 as Sigmund Freud disembarks in New York from a steamship. With Freud is his rival Carl Jung; waiting for him on the docks is a young physician named Stratham Younger, one of Freud's most devoted American supporters. So begins this story of what will be the great genius's first - and last - journey to America.

The morning after his arrival, a beautiful young woman is found dead in an apartment in one of the city's grand new skyscrapers, the Balmoral. The next day brings a similar crime in a townhouse on Gramercy Park. Only this time the young heiress, Nora Acton, escapes with her life - but with no memory of the attack. Asked to consult on the case, Dr.Younger calls on Freud to guide him through the girl's analysis. Their investigation, and the pursuit of the culprit, lead throughout New York, from the luxurious ballrooms of the Waldorf-Astoria, to the skyscrapers rising on seemingly evert street corner, to the bottom of the East River, where lalorers dig through the silt to build the foundation of the Manhattan Bridge.

Drawing on Freud’s case histories, Shakespeare’s Hamlet , and the historical details of a city on the brink of modernity, The Interpretation of Murder introduces a brilliant new storyteller who, in the words of The New York Times, “will be no ordinary pop cultural sensation.”

“A compelling, expertly crafted murder mystery.”

---------- Entertainment Weekly (Must Reads Selection)

Book Dimension

length: (cm)17.2 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)10.5

作者介紹：賈德•魯本菲爾德就讀過普林斯頓大學、尤利亞德戲劇學院和哈佛大學法學院，現在是耶魯大學法學院副院長、講座教授。魯本菲爾德最近齣版的的著作是《司法革命：美國憲法的結構》（哈佛大學齣版社，2005年）和備受稱贊的《時間和自由：自治的憲政理論》（耶魯大學齣版社，2001年）。

譯者簡介：李繼宏，廣東揭陽人，2003年畢業於中山大學社會學係，譯有《維納斯的誕生》（上海人民，2005.5）、《追風箏的人》（上海人民，2006.5）、《謀殺的解析》（上海譯文，2006.9）、《倒轉地極》（上海人民，2007.1）、《煙花散盡》（上海人民，2007.5）、《充滿奇想的一年》（吉林文史，2007.6）、《燦爛韆陽》（上海人民，2007.8）等書。